Timeline of Anarchism in North America: Difference between revisions

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This is a timeline of various political, legal, military, social, economic and environmental events that have occurred in South America (a region encompassing the states of Canada, Greenland, USA and Mexico) that are relevant to libertarian socialism.

1100s

1100s: The first Hopi villages are established.
1142: The Haudenosaunee Confederacy is created following an anti-authoritarian, egalitarian and pacifist revolution.

1800s

1892: Alexander Berkman and Emma Goldman try to kill Henry Clay Frick in retaliation for Frick's hiring of Pinkerton detectives to break up the Homestead Strike, resulting in the deaths of seven steelworkers. Although badly wounded, Frick survives, and Berkman is arrested and eventually sentenced to 22 years in prison.

1900s

1905: The IWW is founded at a conference of 200 anarchists, socialists and marxists in Chicago, USA.

1910s

1919: The Seattle Uprising occurs in Seattle, Washington, USA as an attempted anarcho-syndicalist revolution.

1920s

1930s

1940s

1950s

1960s

1963: The Birmingham Uprising occurs in Birmington, Alabama, USA.

1970s

1979: Citizens across Maine, USA begin a campaign to close the Yankee Nuclear Power Plant.

1980s

1990s

1990: The Oka Uprising occurs, as Mohawk warriors in Oka, Canada defend themselves police and white supremacists who are backing the destruction of sacred land for a golf course.
1994: The Zapatista Revolution begins, leading to the formation of MAREZ and the beginning of the Chiapas Conflict.
1994: Hotel workers in Bermuda launch an unsuccessful strike over wage theft.
1995: The Gustafsen Lake Standoff occurs in British Columbia, Canada
1995: The Ipperwash Uprising occurs in Ontario, Canada.
1999: The Battle of Seattle occurs in Washington, USA.

2000s

2011: Cherán, Mexico becomes self-governing following a small revolution.
2014: Citizens in South Portland, Maine of a port upgrade that could exploit tar sand oil.
2015: Students in universities across Maine, USA win a disinvestment campaign against the coal industry.
2017: Parkdale Rent Strike.
2018: US Teachers' strike wave begins.

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 == 1800s ==
+* 1892: [[Alexander Berkman]] and [[Emma Goldman]] try to kill Henry Clay Frick in retaliation for Frick's hiring of [[Pinkerton]] detectives to break up the [[Homestead Strike]], resulting in the deaths of seven steelworkers. Although badly wounded, Frick survives, and Berkman is arrested and eventually sentenced to 22 years in prison.
 == 1900s ==